It has been almost more than 3 months since I'm back to Jakarta and Im still unemployed. I know this feeling is sucks and for most people who are jobless would feel the same. Besides of looking for a job, doing many interviews and practicing myself for interview...the most I feel is I miss all memories I ever had while I studied overseas..
I keep looking back how happy was I when I was in Malaysia and China, it felt so free....of course I still had homesick back then. I miss so many things that I have had experienced there..
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia..
this was my first time study abroad..I cried for the first 3 days and had homesick and need 3 months to adapt. But then, I get used to everything. Everything became so much fun.
I changed room twice and overall 4 roomates have stayed with me along my study there...Each of them has own characteristic and different experience. I never choose who is my roomate but then after they leave you may have some expectation what kind of person you wish to stay with. My first roomate was Indonesian, second was Iranian, third and fourth were Malaysian-Chinese. In the dorm, I stayed in double room , it is really mini size..maybe 4X6 metres, 2 beds, 2 study desks, and one shared-bathroom. we can see each other and the distance between our bed just 100 cm , I think. Only one person can walk on that distance. We cleaned our room by ourself and sometimes my roomate or me cooked inside the room. I must have breakfast everyday so the quickest and the laziest food is boiled egg, bread with jam and one glass of milk. I ate those breakfast during my stay in KL, now I feel sick with boiled egg.
I still can remember the memory of me walking every afternoon to buy lunch at Mama Kitchen near my dormitory. I went down to the lift, said Hi to the "Makcik" a security lady..then crossed the street ..the weather was terribly hot then I can see those Indian shopkeeper, Giant supermarket, Malay women who sold clothes, Pizza Hut...
Then I arrived at Mama Kitchen , a cheap Chinese ala carte restaurant.. sometimes I ate there if I went along with my friend, but most of the time I took it away..
The restaurant always crowd at lunch time.. Then I would pass the Mama, or her husband, or her son who are always at cashier.. We lined the queue, then their quick hands would count our dishes and gave us change.. mostly I spent 5RM-10 RM for lunch...and really big size.
Another restaurant is an Indonesian restaurant called "Kafe Mesra" selling TomYam and other Thai food.. It is weird while the chef and waitress are Indonesian but they sell Thai food? anyway, the taste are not bad, just we have to wait for a looonggg time, we often pissed off because we had to wait for almost 1 hour at dinner time. So we the other option is the Ali Maju, next to Kafe Mesra. Ali Maju is an Indian restaurant which most of the waitresses cant speak English very well but can speak Malay a little bit (food vocabs)..It is a Indian-muslim restaurant. They keep shaking their head after talking one word and it is really funny..but they always make mistake with our order. They sell Chinese food too and of course mix with a little India ingredients and style, the taste is really awful. The best to order is Roti Canai and some India foods.
Surrounding my dormitory is Bangsar area..this is quite high end place and rich people stay there. In Bangsar we can shop at outdoor Boutique or cafe-ing..I seldom to shop there coz can't bargain much even though the boutiques have many pretty dress..Oh, and they hold night market every Wednesday? (can't remember) it is really nice coz there are so many delicious and street foods there.. Hmm.. eating at night is like a habit for people there and trust me their food is really not bad..sluurrrpp!!
Then I spent my evening had chat with my friend on another floor or just stayed at level 1 to enjoy the aircon and saw other students while playing my laptop or doing assignments. Also, with my classmate rode her motorbike went somewhere, I missed her , we lost contact after she back to Batam.
Most of the time I spent for chit-chatting and I enjoyed it..then if I was not lazy I would go to my two close friends at Casa Damansara by bus..we had chat, watched movie, discussed assignments, cooked Chinese foods..then at night I went back to my dorm. FYI, as a student we got discount for the cinema ticket really cheap..9 RM (Ringgit) on weekdays at Tropicana Mall, 12 RM at Mid Valley..
On the weekend , Me and my friends went to some shopping centre at Bukit Bintang. I always like to go there, there are so many malls and stuffs from low price to high end, many foreigners walked by. We usually went there by bus and LRT..sometimes I went alone to a mall just because feel so bored..
Other nicest things are KL is near Singapore and the transportation to go to another cities are really convenient.. we can go to Pudu Raya- a bus terminal centre that has many buses that provide transportation to Malaka, Genting, Johor Bahru, ALor, Penang, etc...
I can feel adventurous feeling pumping up my body, it was really exciting to manage which city you wanna go alone or with friends or family.
